Diminished Sonic hedgehog signaling and lack of floor plate differentiation in Gli2 mutant mice

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2533-2543

  Ding, Qi ^a   Motoyama, Jun ^a   Gasca, Stéphan ^b,d   Mo, Rong ^a   Sasaki, Hiroshi ^e   Rossant, Janet ^b,c,d   Hui, Chi Chung ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Floor plate; Gli2; HNF3 ; Motor neuron; Patched; Sonic hedgehog

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYO; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-BETA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL CREST; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CUBITUS; CUBITUS INTERRUPTUS; ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 0031855859     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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